LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—About 9.30 on the morning of the 30th of May, 1951, the Coast Life Saving Ser- vice telephoned that a yacht had run on the rocks one and a half miles west of Mine Head. At 9.45 the life-boat H. F. Bailey was...

Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 9.9 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on the Black Middens Rocks. At 9.32 the life-boat Tynesider was launched in a calm sea.

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New Brighton, Cheshire. At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1958, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a converted ship's boat was reported to be in difficulties in the Rock Channel and drifting out to...

Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 9.20 in the evening of the 6th of November, 1948, information was received that the motor trawler Eldborg, of Borgarnes, Iceland, had grounded half a mile south of Ardnamurchan, and the motor life- boat Sir...

Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 10th of October, 1952, the coastguard reported that two fish- ing boats were at sea and that condi- tions at the harbour bar were very dangerous. At 11.20 the No. 1 life- boat Mary Ann...

In smooth but very foggy weather on the 27th July, information reached St.

| Peter's Po:t during the afternoon that a vessel had stranded off Perrelle Bay, and within half an hour the Life-boat Vincent Wilkinson, KrTt...

The Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched at about 4 A.M. on the 13th February in a N.N.W.

gale and heavy sea in answer to signals of distress from a vessel on the Walpole Rock. The schooner Perseverance, of Fowey, was...

GREENORE.—On the 2nd March the steamer Rosstrevor, of Dublin, belonging to the London and North Western Railway Company, left Greenore at about 6 P.M., bound for Holyhead, with passengers and a general cargo. She had proceeded a little...